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What are you feeding your toddlers? Like what does a day of food look like?

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I’m Interested in this too! 3rd baby over here and an absolute nightmare at eating, she has milk and a piece of buttered toast for breakfast, sometimes a snack of a rusk or cookie etc, then dinner is usually a wrap or sandwich of chocolate spread/peanut butter/banana (will not eat meat/cheese on a sandwich) with cucumber slices, 🙈 or a pasta/rice meal then milk and tea is what ever we’re having, sometimes snack after tea of yoghurt/pudding kind snack then more milk, it’s certainly not the healthiest or most varied but I’m not worried, my other two went fussy for a few years and came out of it, I don’t know any adults that will only eat spread on sandwiches so there’s hope for me 😆😆

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We share everything 🫣🤣
Porridge with fruit and seeds every morning, sometimes weetabix for a change.
Lunch I’ll rotate between soups, toasties or pesto pasta
Dinner tonight was bean chilli with rice sometimes we do spag Bol, burgers and chips, sausage and mash
Love a good lazy dinner of airfried nuggets with beans and chips too but I prefer homemade as we have a lot of allergies in our house 🙈

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Toast, weetabix, Croissants, raisins, pasta, broccoli, crisps and biscuits basically 🤣 my boy is having a very fussy stage just now.

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nut butters on toast or waffles with fruit in the mornings

lunch is usually cold sandwiches with cucumber/tomatoes, toddler crisps and a yogurt

dinner time is always a struggle, my son is very picky with hot meals! he eats quiches, sausages, pies, and if i’m lucky he will try some veg but usually spits it out.

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I struggle with food for my toddler she’s not picky but half the time just won’t eat and if she does it’s not much

On the plan for the next few weeks are

Breakfast

Cheerios and soya milk
Bagels and butter (her fav)
Toast and butter
Fruit platter (oranges, strawberries and bananas)

Lunch
Currently no ideas she refuses lunch, probably just sandwiches or something!

Tea
Sausage and mash
Tomato and herb pasta
Spaghetti bolognaise
Chicken and rice
Chicken nuggets and homemade sweet potato fries

I’m just doing a food shop now 🙈

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Scrambled egg and beans
Toast
Cereal
Pancakes

Cheese wrap, fruit, snap pot yogurt
Crackers, ham, cheese, fruit, crisps
Soup, bread, crisps
Beans, potatoe waffles, nuggets

Veggie pasta
Fish fingers, chips, beans
Spag-Bol
Homemade pizza
Chilli & rice

Snacks; fruit/ veggie sticks/ petits filous/ Babybel/ nutrigrain bar/ raisins with chocolate chips

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Breakfast:

Organ meats/steak
Omelette with greens
A piece of fruit

Lunch
Lentil soup
Rye toast with butter

Snack: grated apple with flaked almonds, chia seed & yoghurt

Dinner:
Savoury oatmeal with wild salmon, mushrooms and green peas.
Dessert: a date

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Breakfast : toast with scrambled eggs and fruits , sometimes I put cream cheese on the toast

Lunch : chicken , rice and vegetable , a pasta bake or a ham and cheese sandwich, dessert is fruits and a yogurt

For snacks they ll have a piece of cheese , some biscuits or fruit smoothie .

Dinner they have what we have , they have not been picky with food so far , fingers crossed it continues like this . They like meat , fish and seafood and eat any vegetable . They specially love olives !

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If yall still giving your kids processed food, pls seek help

I understand not everybody can afford healthy ingredients all the time, but I’m seeing so many moms on social media giving they kids artificial cereals, coffee, frozen pancakes, velveetta Mac and cheese, hot Cheetos, kraft, the list goes on. I’m sorry but are yall not capable of cooking from scratch or ?? On top of that, if you still using canola and vegetable oil in 2026 you gotta stop. Am I the only one that notices this ???

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AITA?

This isn't a major issue, just wondering if I'm being a bit of an asshole.

• I do shift work, 5 out of 7 days, full-time.
• My partner works from home (mostly, sometimes he goes into the office) M-F, full-time.

Anyway, whenever I have a day off during the week he gets in his feelings when I make myself food (breakfast and lunch) but not him. His reason is he's working, I'm not - Which is fair but I've asked him how many times on a weekend has he gotten up, on his day off and made me breakfast and a lunch to take with me to work? You guessed it, 0.

So basically, just because I'm at home I don't think the responsibility to feed him should automatically fall on me when he manages to feed himself just fine while I'm at work.

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I've finally done it

I have finally done it. I have finally become the trope, the stereotype.

I have become bitter, resentful, and very overwhelmed and overloaded. I am very unhappy and hit burnout. And I snapped at my husband last night. I work full-time, and work has been very busy so im working late a lot. Im also in grad school. I also have a toddler that has become VERY clingy with me. My husband works shorter days but commutes, so he usually gets home after me by an hour or more. When he gets home, he usually heads to the restroom for at least 30 mins when he gets home. And now my toddler doesnt want anything to do with him. So im doing all the toddler duties until bed. I dont get 5 mins to myself. Not for almost 2 years. I finally hit my wall. I have also, somehow, become my MILs medical ride service and she somehow has an appt every week, it seems?! Shes not sick!! My husband was complaining that he needs to change routine to fit in a workout sometimes, and I lost it. I have been BEGGING for 5 mins to myself for months. I have been telling him how im not good, im going to burn out for months. And between his attitude and him complaining (which really got me b/c he blames me for not being able to work out?! Saying I need help when he gets home so he just cant workout now) I just lost it completely. I told him how unfair my life has become and I have the entire mental and emotional load and it is just not fair. He got mad at me and said "hes trying" when hes literally not trying at all. What do I do?? No one is taking the load from me! And im done and dont know what to do now.
I do not like this version of me.

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Big vent!

Hi mums.
I'm a first time mum in my 40s to twin boys.They are almost 5 months old and the biggest miracle in my life!
I am struggling!!!
I'm pretty sure I have ppa as my pregnancy was a very high risk and all I remember was crying from anxiety of all the ifs!Thankfully even born at 35 weeks and skinny,didn't need iu time.
My husband is not helping much because he's always too busy with work.He will "look" after them usually between 8pm-12am so I can have a chance to sleep.
He expects me to just sleep when I touch the pillow,even though I hear tje babies crying and him don't really bother because most of the times he'll be on his laptop working.
When I tell him I can't relax to fall asleep because I feel you r neglecting the babies,he says I'm the problem becauae I'm always there with them and don't give them alone time!!
I am angry!!I am furious!!
I can't keep.up.with housework becauae someone alwaya neess me and most of the times they nap I either cook and clean tje kitchen,do laundry or try and take a quick nap.
He doesn't help.around the house,becauae..guess what?always super busy.
I asked him nicely we could clean the house together every Saturday morning so it's easier and quicker for both of us and he said no,because he has a lot of work but probably wants to sleep until 12 or 2.
2 days ago a button of his coat ripped and I told him I'll sew it these days.
Earlier this morning while running late for his work,as always,he weara the coat and told him didn't get the chance to fix the button and sarcastically said..of.course u didn't!!!
I spent all night awake because one of the babies had congested nose and we've been trying to reduce one fees at night.
I wanted to punch him!!He left and I started crying...I cry so much,even at 5 months pp...
I can't go on like this anymoreeeee...
The crying in my ears is constant..my head is always numb..I've gained so much weight and can't find the strength to get back on track..
Even if I try to.find a therapist to just talk,is it gonna help?I really don't know😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Should I respect his wishes??

I’ve been a SAHM for 4 years now and my husband does a great job providing for our family and we never need for anything. With that i still had to sacrifice some wants like shopping when I want getting my hair and nails done regularly so when I can I try to supplement for my wants and savings by selling my craft items at vendor markets and recently I’ve started donating plasma. Which has been consistent income for me. $125 twice a week. Well my husband has expressed that he doesn’t like me donating plasma. He feels like it’s not worth it to put my body through those conditions for $125. He even went out to sell one of his guns today and gave me all the money and told me “I shouldn’t have to donate plasma no more”. That was so sweet but I disagree. I planned on continuing to donate plasma to save for my kids birthdays thats coming up, a trip we have planned and our anniversary. I don’t know what to do. I finally found something that pays something consistently and my husband is against it. What should I do?

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Avoidant husband

I love my husband and he is a good man. We have some issues in our relationship however, as he has an avoidant attachment style (finds romance/intimacy/being emotional difficult). This comes from him having to be independent from a young age and having quite an abusive mother.
The issues in our relationship are mainly around a lack of sex and intimacy. I think the problem is that to feel turned on, I need to feel connected and wanted. My husband (being avoidant) will usually make jokes about being horny whereas I would want to have someone make me feel beautiful/sexy to get in the mood.
It sounds terrible but I've sometimes had dreams about exes that would make me feel this way, and the romance we had (eye contact, intensity, deep words). It makes me feel really guilty but I feel like i'm starved of that. My husband would like a lot more sex but I can't always force myself if I'm not feeling it.
We've spoken a bit about therapy but I know its often really expensive so we probably wouldn't be able to afford it. Do you have any suggestions please? I know that neither of us are wrong in what we want, just different but I'm scared about whether we can fix it or if we're doomed?

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